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Our paid users do not see third-party ad network ads, so no.

There are other third party services we use that may see various pieces of information from free and paid members. Stripe, for example, manages some payment processing and collects some user data; ZenDesk manages support tickets for us and also collects various pieces of user data.

In the coming months we will be sharing more information about the third parties with whom we work and on whom our service is built, and how data is shared between them. When it comes to ad networks, however, our integration is limited to what I mentioned above.

For these third-party ad networks, they accept a lat/lng, so we (and I suspect most apps) just pass in a value obtained from the device.

That said, upon further reflection, a local advertiser could surely get enough targeting information with a much, much less precise value...we'll look into making this change in a future release.

Hi -- See my reply above for a list of what we share. HIV status is not part of this data, and indeed is not something we directly collect.

CEO of SCRUFF here, and daily reader of HN. We have not, do not, and would not share this information with third parties.

The data that we share with our third-party ad providers is:

- Your location (so you can get those local car dealer ads)

- Your gender

- Your age

- The targeting keyword "gay"

We currently use AdMob and MoPub to provide our network advertising.

More broadly, this kind of information is never something we would share. We know the sensitivity of HIV status, and know that it has been used to discriminate against our community in the past. When we do take money from direct advertisers (full-screen ads shown at launch), we make sure that they are promoting relevant and beneficial products for our community, and the ads they place are serviced 100% in-app and come with no extra data nor api calls.

Ultimately, our business model is based on subscriptions, which means we are successful when we make software that people love to use. We don't spend our days trying to squeeze a marginal penny out of some remainder-bin ad unit by trading personal data of our users. Instead, we spend our time focused on how to make an excellent product, that works reliably, is free of spambots and harassment, and connects gay guys with each other and the global gay community.

SCRUFF | IOS & Android Engineers | Ruby Engineers | Product Management | Full time | New York City

SCRUFF, one of the largest gay social networks worldwide (http://www.scruff.com), has an immediate openings for IOS + Android Engineers, Ruby Engineers, and our first Product Manager. Our stack is based in Ruby (Sinatra, not Rails), Swift and ObjC, React Native, Java, and (hopefully soon) Kotlin. Our infra is 100% AWS, and we are bleeding edge on many of their Big Data technologies. We are a small, highly technical team looking for mid-level or senior engineers to come join us.

If you're excited about the intersection of technology in the gay community and want to help chart its next course, talk to us! Our jobs page is at http://www.scruff.com/jobs/

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SCRUFF | Software Engineers | NYC | ONSITE: https://www.scruff.com/jobs

SCRUFF, one of the largest gay social networks worldwide, has multiple immediate openings for senior software engineers. Ideal candidates have a minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience, 1+ years of iOS or Android development experience, and have shipped multiple major software projects. You should be a passionate developer with a deep background in multiple technologies including Objective C or Java on Android, Ruby, Linux, JavaScript, and others. You'll be expected to participate in various development activities including project estimating, planning, and progress tracking. You should have experience working with Visual Designers and an obsessive attention to visual detail. Our systems also integrate with multiple external platforms, so experience working with 3rd-party APIs and integrations is critical. An appreciation for the gay social mobile software market also helps!

Come join us in our awesome office in Bryant Park across from the NYPL!

SCRUFF | Product Manager | New York, NY | Full-Time, Onsite | https://www.scruff.com/jobs

SCRUFF is one of the world's largest gay social dating apps. As a Product Manager, you will work closely with our product, development and marketing teams to guide products and promotions from concept to launch. You will crunch data to evaluate the impact of new and improved features. You will conduct usability testing, user interviews, and other qualitative analytics to help us understand what hard data cannot tell us about our members. In short, you will play a key role defining and delivering the future of gay social networking!

Please email scruff.ProManager@applynow.io and mention HN!

For background on that case: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/07/hot...

Could someone compare this to Redshift? Seems like they solve similar problems...we use RS to monitor terabytes of time-series data.

I was very excited for the improved emulator, but I also run Docker to simulate my app server, and the Android emulator does not run simultaneously with VirtualBox. Sticking to GenyMotion I guess...

I wrote about my (unsuccessful) app engine experience many years ago...hopefully they've improved since then.

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~silver/gae.html

Does anyone have experience with alternative services that provide this? CrowdFlower used to offer image moderation (http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/crowdflower-rtfm-2-0/) but they killed the product 18 months ago.

I realize you can build this with Mechanical Turk, etc, but am specifically interested in ones that offer out-of-box nudity detection.

The author's assertion that "Another problem with MySQL is that any table modification (e.g. adding a column) will result in the table being locked for both reading and writing. This means that any operation using such a table will have to wait until the modification has completed." is no longer correct as of Mysql 5.6:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-create-index-o...

If you specify ALGORITHM=INPLACE,LOCK=NONE you can alter table without blocking reads and writes. We have used this method successfully in Amazon RDS when updating schemas.

Has anyone there found info about what libraries Facebook has embedded into this app? For example, if you go to Privacy and Legal in the Camera • app, you get a nice list of every open-source project they embed. I can't find it in this new FB app...

New York, NY

SCRUFF, one of the largest and fastest-growing gay social networks, is hiring a senior engineer for its New York office.

SCRUFF is not a traditional software startup - we think there are a few reasons why working at SCRUFF is a one-of-a-kind experience:

• You will get to make consumer software that lots of people use.

Consumer software is by far one of the most fun businesses to be in. Consumer software is easy to explain, you can share it immediately with your friends, and you get to apply both technical and design skills. Business-to-business software is well and good, but there's a reason why we aren't writing automated trading platforms for hedge funds :) SCRUFF has been fortunate to find a market that is both growing quickly and very excited about our product. When you come on board, the code you write will affect hundreds of thousands of guys every day.

• Our #1 priority for you is your professional development

Most startups want engineers to start producing shipping code on day one. We would much rather take the time to allow you to explore our codebase, do deep dives into the technologies we use, and ultimately write great production code in weeks or months. We feel mentorship is one of the most critical aspects of enjoying your job.

We also strive to practice good core software engineering principles, because we believe in the long-run it will make the code you write better, bring more benefits to our members, and be most helpful for you in your career. The ideal candidate should come in with a healthy ego and a positive attitude, be open to critical feedback, and be eager to develop more in the practice of professional software development.

• You will touch every piece of code we have.

Our engineering team is small. There are no client-side/server-side functional divides. You will be responsible for the servers (we have a lot). You will be responsible for the client (iOS and Android). Your brain will be stretched in new and confounding ways. But in the process you will build a set of skills that will form the core of all software innovation of the next 10 years. What we teach you at SCRUFF about mobile development will be like learning HTML in 1995 or GUI programming in 1985.

• Parties are our business, and now they're yours, too.

No, seriously. Lots of startups will talk about their Friday night beer busts, but at SCRUFF we take it to a new level. SCRUFF partners with promoters and events all across the world. As a SCRUFF team member, you will become part of the SCRUFF brand, and will have opportunities to represent us at events both locally and across the country.

• New York City.

SCRUFF is based in Manhattan, the most amazing city in the world. Everyone you've ever met will want to come and visit. Your other friends who work at banks will complain to you about their schedules while you are busy planning SCRUFF parties into your workday(night?) Startup networking events will be blocks away, every day. You'll have access to the most restaurants, the most culture, and an endless stream of new people to meet. We love New York, and think you will love it too.

Read more at http://www.scruffapp.com/join